SCENARIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

scenarist

noun

Definition of scenarist

as in scriptwriter

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Recent Examples of scenarist Liberal scenarists will be left wondering what if, though, as Congresswoman Katie Porter will end up notching more than 400,000 votes — enough, potentially, to have given Steyer the win had the fellow liberal Democrat dropped out. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026 The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there. — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split). — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022 McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend. — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021

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Noun

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, whom Hegseth installed after firing Cao’s predecessor, then weighed in with a Hollywood scriptwriter’s cheesy panache to say the incident debrief was complete.

— Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
The goal every amateur scriptwriter had written, and then thrown in the bin for not being quite spectacular enough.

— Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026

Definition of scriptwriter

Noun

Director-screenwriter Jacob Chase, who has experience with this sort of material thanks to his 2020 horror film Come Play, establishes tension in the opening moments and steadily ratchets it up from there.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026
But that’s because Higgsfield tapped a human screenwriter, adding authorial voice underneath images that are sometimes obviously AI-generated.

— Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of screenwriter

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Since Don Juan was introduced in 1630 by dramatist Tirso de Molina, the Spanish Lothario has appeared in numerous re-interpretations, but perhaps the most important debuted a century ago.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026
One of Gary Graves’ biggest strengths as a dramatist is that nary a word feels wasteful when written by him.

— Charles Lewis III, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

After a painful breakup, a young playwright accepts a job as assistant director for a theater company in a foreign city.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
Lena Dunham co-wrote the book alongside playwright Jessica Huang (Mother of Exiles), and the score is co-written by undisputed pop-music genius Carly Rae Jepsen with frequent Phoebe Bridgers collaborator Ethan Gruska.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of playwright

Noun

Neither group showed higher-than-normal death rates from cancers that aren't tied to radiation exposure, noted the commentary writers, Catherine Olsen and Ken Karipidis.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Sometimes the cure for writer’s block is just having something to react to, and ChatGPT is always there to provide fodder.

— Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of writer

Noun

Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.

— Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021

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